Tag: Donald Trump
America’s Existential Challenge: Pandemic, War and Law
From the beginnings of his crudely acrimonious presidency, Donald Trump has actively undermined US foreign policy relationships. On urgently key matters of world politics and international law, Mr. Trump’s typically invalid conclusions have generally...
Trump campaign to mark two-year Jerusalem embassy opening with fundraiser
The Trump re-election campaign is scheduled to host a virtual fundraiser on Thursday to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
Jewish Insider first reported on the fundraiser, which requires a...
“The First Man” And “America First” / Uncovering Jewish Meanings In A Time Of...
“The dust of the first man was gathered from all parts of the earth.” (Talmud)
More than anything else, the Talmudic ” First Man” signifies human unity and relatedness. “America First,” on the other hand,...
Empathy, Pandemic, and “America First”: Legal Meanings for a Nation in Peril
“What does not benefit the entire hive is no benefit to the bee.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
From the beginning, Donald Trump’s ideology of “America First” has been misconceived. In essence, any concocted presidential notion that exploitative...
Is there something wrong with people liking Jews?
During the course of a press call marking May as Jewish Heritage Month, Elan Carr, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, said something that set off critics of the...
Trump vetoes congressional resolution to limit US military authority vis à vis Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he vetoed a congressional resolution to curb his ability to enact future U.S. military action against Iran without congressional approval.
“This was a very insulting resolution, introduced...
Major upheavals due to coronavirus pose challenges for US-Israel relationship
As the world’s attention has been focused on combating the spread of the coronavirus for the past two months, presidential primary campaign politics in the United States has been put on the backburner. Former...
Beyond The Pandemic: American Strategic Survival In A Time Of Plague
“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation….The latter is not possible without the...
How much of Trump’s foreign policy would Biden preserve?
Democrats can’t wait until next January. They’re hoping that the next inauguration day will be the end of their long nightmare, and they can put the presidency of Donald Trump in the rear-view mirror....
Trump Praises ‘Spirit and Resiliency’ of Jews, at Start of Jewish American Heritage Month
US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Wednesday ahead of the start of Jewish American Heritage Month.
Trump stated, “In 1654, the first Jewish settlers arrived in New Amsterdam, present day New York City,...